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Lawrence Hargrave (born Jan. 29, 1850, Greenwich, London, Eng.—died July 6, 1915, Sydney, Australia) was an English aviation pioneer and inventor of the box kite. Born and educated in England, Hargrave immigrated to Australia, where he began work in 1866 as a draftsman. He participated in expeditions to New Guinea in 1872, 1875, and 1876, and ...
2 days ago · J. Robert Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb " for ...
4 days ago · This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1] A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
2 days ago · James Watson. James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their ...
3 days ago · Northern State University is a four-year public university located in Aberdeen, South Dakota. NSU is governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents and offers 38 majors and 42 minors, as well as six associate, eight pre-professional and nine graduate degrees. NSU also offers online degrees and workshops.
3 days ago · Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. She is known for starring in both action film franchises and independent dramas, and her films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide. The world's highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016, she appeared in Time ' s 100 most influential people in the world ...
4 days ago · Specialty. Law. Elected. 2022. Dorothy E. Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at University of Pennsylvania, where she is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies.
